REM Island
REM Eiland

**Have dinner in a restaurant that used to be a pirate radio and TV station. **

REM Island is located in the port of the Houthaven harbour. This red and white tower was once a pirate radio and a TV station which was an introduction to commercial television in the Netherlands, as in 1964 the broadcasting program on the Dutch tv was only state-sponsored.

The government was not happy with the tower, but they couldn’t do anything against it, as the tower’s location (in the North Sea) was a way to circumvent the law. Eventually the government found a legal way to shut the tower down, which happened.

Today the tower has a restaurant in it, where you can have high quality food while enjoying the view of the IJ-water and the city.